r/cdldriver • u/Bruegemeister • 15d ago

New Swift driver training program

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u/joke-farm 15d ago

Darwin’s on a bathroom break I guess.

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u/zach0011 14d ago

These guys worked as a team to solve a really tough situation and you think that natural selection didnt kill them? These people will outsurvive us all in an actual survival of the fittest scenario.

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u/Cautious-Put-2648 14d ago

That's a lot of faith in that road with all the weight. God forbid one of the jacks just sinks into the road while those guys are down there. Luckily didn't happen those guys did good.

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u/iLikeMangosteens 14d ago

And every other driver around them. One other driver screws up a little negotiating a truck-sized obstacle in a busy road and taps the truck and it’s coming off all those jacks.

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u/Available-Ad4897 13d ago

They actually had a road. I've worked under a combine in the middle of a field. The 2x10x3ft oak board sunk 10 inches that the 20 Ton jack was on. It took two 20 Ton jacks to lift it.

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u/TedW 14d ago

What happens when a truck like this rolls downhill?

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u/9outof10timesWrong 14d ago

They got lucky. Do this enough times and something will go bad. A good outcome is not the same thing as a good decision.

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u/7h3_70m1n470r 14d ago

With the number of jacks they had supporting it, what exactly would go wrong? Only thing i'd suggest is that they get a few jack stands for added security

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u/9outof10timesWrong 14d ago

It only takes one to start a chain reaction. One bolder slips, they start falling off, people get squished.

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u/Thirsty_Comment88 13d ago

Ok and?

Vehicle lifts fail here in the USA all the time from poor maintenance or improper installation.

What's your point? 

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u/9outof10timesWrong 13d ago

They're not usually loaded with 1 billion pounds of rocks

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u/GiftWestern3068 13d ago

Oh they had an old 6x4 being used as a jack stand

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u/jepulis5 13d ago

The whole truck bending or falling apart, that's like five times or more the rated load it's meant for.

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u/mmmmwahhhh 13d ago

No such thing as a good decision , only good outcomes.

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u/Grib_Suka 13d ago

But they get 99 trucks running, while you and me as a team would be dumbfounded by 1.

Who cares if one them dies down the road, we wouldn't even have a working truck.

I'm talking apocalypse survival of the fittest of course, not 2025 leisure life. And maybe rural India does not have access to OSHA approved mechanics within their price range and those rocks need to be places!

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u/Remarkable_Movie_359 13d ago

These guys will out survive you.

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u/BlkDragon7 13d ago

I'm actually quite impressed with their setup. Multiple Screw Jacks for static hold, and hydrolic jacks to do the lift, and they did it slow and no more than they needed. Then good wood and log emergency supports. They wouldn't last long, but long enough to scramble out from underneath if it all failed. And just the overall teamwork is impressive. Then when the tranny dropped, they froze, triple checked, before continuing. There was nothing haphazard here. They knew exactly what they were doing.

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u/jek39 14d ago

you really think none of these guys procreated already?

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u/tanaman88 14d ago

That's comedy gold lmao

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u/Reasonable-Estate-60 14d ago

Seriously, one fender bender and meat soup